President Donald Trump made a promise on the campaign trail to shutter the Department of Education, and now that promise is coming to fruition.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced Tuesday that six programs under her jurisdiction will be transferred to the Departments of State, Interior, Labor, and Health and Human Services.
"The Trump Administration is taking bold action to break up the federal education bureaucracy and return education to the states,” she said in the press release. “As we partner with these agencies to improve federal programs, we will continue to gather best practices in each state through our 50-state tour, empower local leaders in K-12 education, restore excellence to higher education, and work with Congress to codify these reforms.”
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